The World Atlas of Birds

The World Atlas of Birds

Gramercy Books, Random House, 2006, ISBN 0517227320, two page colour frontispiece, colour photographs and illustrations throughout, large format hardcover, dust-jacket

Near Fine Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, no inscriptions or markings, dust-jacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, small chips to edges, small tears to corners,  (see photographs)

"This is Sir Peter Scott's view of this remarkable volume.  It is a new and exciting excursion into the complex and intriguing world of birds.
Written by fourteen of the world's outstanding authorities on ornithology, illustrated with more than 500 original portraits, 270 line drawings, and 167 maps and diagrams, The World Atlas of Birds offers a fresh look at what birds are, how they live, and what lies behind their extraordinary success in coming to terms with virtually every habitat available to our planet, from polar regions to equatorial rain-forests, mountaintops to the open sea."